CV: Andrew Marr

As Andrew, 61, concludes his series on the New Elizabethans (9pm, BBC2), we reveal some things you might not know about the veteran presenter…

● Andrew William Stevenson Marr was new role presenting the BBC’S Sunday-morning born in Glasgow on July 31, 1959. news programme, Sunday AM, known as The

Andrew Marr Show since September 2007.

● After reading English at Trinity Hall,

Cambridge, he began his journalism career ● He was forced to take eight months on The Scotsman newspaper, which he off work after suffering a stroke in joined as a trainee business reporter in January, 2013. The stroke left him

1981. He became the paper’s political with ‘a pretty useless left arm’. editor in 1986; the same year, he was ● He hates shopping for clothes, part of the team that launched The which he describes as ‘a loathsome, Independent, and ten years later, he soul-rotting, foot-throbbingly was appointed that paper’s editor. boring waste of one’s short time

● Andrew became the BBC’S on the planet. I just can’t stand it.’ political editor in May 2000, role he ● Andrew lives in Primrose Hill, was to fulfil for the next five years north London with his wife, the before stepping down after the 2005 political journalist Jackie Ashley. The general election. He then moved to a couple have a son and two daughters.